My offline name is Randy Rule and I turned 53 in October. I grew up in Oklahoma in Tulsa and graduated from Oklahoma State in Electrical Engineering and got my first job with Westinghouse designing microprocessor chips back when you designed each one for its own function like running the BART trains out in San Francisco. Got bored with that and went into the Power Generation side of things and have stayed in that ever since. I love Golf and Flying and since my Father was a WWII fighter pilot (p47 and p51) he has always owned various planes so I grew as unofficial co-pilot.

I now own small pieces of various power generation industry manufacturing and service comanies as a partner in Saw Mill Capital and for hobbies I also invest in other unrelated fun companies like Space Adventures where I sit on the board. We sent Dennis Tito and Mark Shuttleworth to the International Space Station as the worlds first space tourists. I have also gone to Russia and flown in a Mig 25 Foxbat at 82,000 ft and Mach 2.5 and flown a Mig 29 to do the famous Cobra maneuver (My imitation of the Russian's pilots version was barely recognizable) and pulled 8.5 G's in a diving turn just so I could say I had done it and knew what it felt like. Also while in Russia I went up on an IL76 and experienced the thrill of zero gravity as we did parabola after parabola and floated around like the astronauts. I have also flown a F-104 Starfighter and a T-38 under the guidance of an experienced pilot of course.

I started out flying warbirds 2 with an allied squad called Britsh Bulldogs and didn't really learn any fighter tactics so I mostly flew buffs since everytime I got into a fighter I got killed very quickly. One day perusing the forums I noticed a squad that promised to teach you how to fight and I applied to join. I have never looked back because JG51 not only taught me to survive but I can actually win once in a while. I think the Axis planes with their limitations actually let us become better tactical pilots and I'm all for that. I am looking forward to the day that our computers become so powerful that we can fly in true virtual reality. Every year it gets better.